I'm having a similar problem. Or I did. I tried to put in a pci
graphics card. Oooops. Looking at the back of the G4 - the
configuration is for AGP graphics. I had a spiffy AGP graphics card w/
256 MB of Video Ram. But it wouldn't fit into the AGP graphics slot.
now it boots and works, but it only
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Subject: Re: Won't boot after G4 Power Mac M5183 up grades???
I'm having a similar problem. Or I did. I tried to put in a pci
graphics card. Oooops. Looking at the back of the G4 - the
configuration is for AGP graphics. I had a spiffy AGP graphics card w/
256 MB of Video Ram. But it wouldn't
Hey Matt, I am in the process I trying to figure this out and you might be
right, the only thing with this link is the card they show is red and mine is
green... I will figure it out, and I will try to flash this on my daughters
old PC Tower if that needs to be done... I do love a
Ok I got everything up and running now but I still can not get the video
card to work, the computer won't even boot up... The video card I got for it is
a: PNY Tech Inc GeForce FX5200 DDR 128mb I tried running the disc that came
with it and there isn't any download for the Apple only PC's,
On Sep 8, 2010, at 11:56 AM, Richard Gerome wrote:
The video card I got for it is a: PNY Tech Inc GeForce FX5200 DDR 128mb I
tried running the disc that came with it and there isn't any download for the
Apple only PC's, how do I get this to work???
It has to be flashed for the Mac.
On Sep 8, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Richard Gerome wrote:
Ok I got everything up and running now but I still can not get the
video card to work, the computer won't even boot up... The video
card I got for it is a: PNY Tech Inc GeForce FX5200 DDR 128mb I
tried running the disc that came with it and
Richard,
You got a PC video card, which won't work at all in a Mac. It's that
simple. (Maybe it could work, but it would need to be flashed
beforehand using a PC, so that's out for now.) You need to put back
the old video card for the computer to work.
Your G4 is a Digital Audio, if I'm not
On Sep 8, 3:11 pm, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote:
You're going to need to enable LBA48 support so that the full 250GB is
recognized.
Kris,
Kudos for the great detailed info. I didn't know anything about the
firmware fix or Overdrive.
Thanks!
Felix
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On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 20:24 -0400, Richard Gerome wrote:
Thanks Bruce, it was the video card swapped in the old one and will download
the OS to the new HD and then download the disc that came with the video card
then put the new one back in and hope it will boot up then... Very cool!!!
Hey everyone!!! I got all the new stuff in this computer (a lot easier then
laptops) and now the computer won't even boot up??? Is this machine the one
that is known for the power button going bad??? I had this running last month
without any problems... I am borderline of putting all the
On Sep 7, 2010, at 2:46 PM, Richard Gerome wrote:
Hey everyone!!! I got all the new stuff in this computer (a lot easier then
laptops) and now the computer won't even boot up??? Is this machine the one
that is known for the power button going bad??? I had this running last month
without
john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu
Sent: Sep 7, 2010 6:03 PM
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Subject: Re: Won't boot after G4 Power Mac M5183 up grades???
On Sep 7, 2010, at 2:46 PM, Richard Gerome wrote:
Hey everyone!!! I got all the new stuff in this computer (a lot easier
then laptops) and now
On Sep 7, 2010, at 4:40 PM, Richard Gerome wrote:
No the only things I changed were the hard drive, DVD/CD super drive, more
memory, video card and an airport card... Used a 250G 7200rpm PATA hard drive
instead of the PCI card with a SATA drive... The CPU would be a processor
upgrade
Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu
Sent: Sep 7, 2010 7:58 PM
To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Won't boot after G4 Power Mac M5183 up grades???
On Sep 7, 2010, at 4:40 PM, Richard Gerome wrote:
No the only things I changed were the hard drive, DVD/CD super drive, more
memory, video
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